Gee Bernard used these dolls in her job as a social worker,when she gave lectures about racism.

The black doll is much more poorly madethan the white doll.

Gee Bernard

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Gee Bernard

Gee talks about combating racism:

"I was talking about how best you can use the brain within the Black community to work for the Black community. That's when I learnt that white people did not know Black people, that we were sold to the white indigenous population as a problem."

"A lot of people would say to you, 'There is no racism in this school because they had a lot of black childrenin the school'. But what they didn't look at is that the materials they were using to educate the black childwould be destroying the black child. These two dolls are what I use for lectures about racism.The colour of the black doll is all wrong, the hairstyle's wrong, it's a terrible piece of work. Everything about it is making you inferior; so you would hold onto the white because it's better than black."

Working in education and social work

Gee Bernard was a social workerliving in Thornton Heath.In 1981 she became a councillor for the Inner London Education Authority. She bought the dolls while on a trip to America in 1984.

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